How to Be the Trader You Wish You Were
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Trading Rules
Breaking Your Trading Bias
Trading Bias Definition: A trading bias is the tendency that leads traders and investors to follow a predetermined path in a trade or investment even when it appears they are wrong from a fundamental or technical perspective or both. A bias about a trade occurs when there is a loss of perspective because their opinions or predictions are held even
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Fragile Trader, Anti-Fragile Trader
Reading Nicholas Taleb’s book Anti-Fragile really got me thinking about how traders are broken. (This may actually be my favorite book out of over a thousand I have read in my life.) Traders can become fragile and be broken in several ways: They can quit because they believe that trading successfully is impossible. They can
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The 10 Trading Rules of Jesse Livermore
Before there was a William J. O’Neil or a Nicolas Darvas there was Jesse Livermore. Livermore was considered to be one of the greatest traders to ever live. He is said to have made over $100 million shorting the 1929 crash, an unthinkable amount in his time. He made and lost millions on several occasions, he was
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10 Things Hard About Trading
It is hard not to trade too big when you really believe in a trade entry. It is even harder to take a big loss if it goes against you. It is hard to keep taking your entry signals during a losing streak. It is also hard to miss a signal and watch it go
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Beating Randomness in your Trading
“I define a mistake as not following your rules. … If you don’t have rules, everything you do is a mistake.” – Van Tharp If you do not have a quantified process for your trading that includes buy and sell signals with proper position sizing using a trading plan to execute a trading system then your trading
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10 Qualities of Successful Traders
This is a Guest Post by Michael Battat. He is on twitter @mbat31 10 Qualities That Successful Traders Have And You Need In tough times like 2016, traders often feel as though things can never go their way. This feeling typifies how stock trading can be incredibly emotional. We all want to make money, and
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5 Habits for Profitable Trading
Here are five of the most important trading habits for a trader to integrate into their day-to-day entry and exit decisions. If your trading plan has rules that cover these principles, then you must follow them long enough so they become habits. Always choose a price level that will prove your trade entry was wrong and set a
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My 10 Trading New Year Resolutions
“Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don’t ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.” – Paul Tudor Jones
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